"Star Trek" heads back to TV with digital makeover

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Four decades after Capt. Kirk and crew zoomed off at warp speed to "the final frontier," the iconic sci-fi series "Star Trek" returns to broadcast television this week with an extensive digital face-lift.

Paramount Domestic Television, a unit of CBS Corp.,  is digitally remastering all 79 episodes of the original series to enhance the show’s 1960s-era visual effects with 21st-century computer-generated graphics.

Digitally created images will replace the miniature-scale models used for exterior shots of the various spacecraft on the show, including Kirk’s Starship Enterprise and the enemy war vessels of the alien Klingons and Romulans.